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Decorative plates, porcelain, Meissen manufactory, 6 pieces, cat decoration, gold rim, inscribed on the base "Freunde des Meissener Porzellans" (Friends of Meissen porcelain), years 2004 - 2009, blue sword mark

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Decorative plates, porcelain, Meissen manufactory, 6 pieces, cat decoration, gold rim, inscribed on the base "Freunde des Meissener Porzellans" (Friends of Meissen porcelain), years 2004 - 2009, blue sword mark

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Table clock; Manufacture Meissen, Germany, c. 1749. "Allegory of time." Porcelain. Presents marks in the lower area. Measurements: 73 x 69 x 23 cm. Table clock made of porcelain, which has been conceived in a sculptural way. The piece follows classic models in terms of the creation of the base that gives way to the clock case bordered with a large garland inside which is the dial with the hours in Roman numerals. On this base and on the watch case has been created a complex sculptural group starring children angels, located in the lower area and a winged old man, crowned the watch face, this hand points directly to the hours thus indicating the allegorical theme of the whole representing the passage of time. The Meissen Manufactory was the first European factory to produce genuine porcelain. The manufacture was started by the scientist Ehrenfried Walther von Tchirnhaus in 1708, and after his untimely death his work was continued by Joahnn Friedrich Böttger, who remained practically imprisoned on the factory premises in order to protect the secret of the porcelain formula. The production of Meissen porcelain began in 1710, one year after the factory was founded by Augustus the Strong, and soon achieved great fame throughout Europe. In order to prevent forgeries, he introduced his famous mark, two crossed swords, in 1720, making his one of the oldest pottery marks in existence (it still remains on the pieces of Meissen's heir firm, the Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen GMBH). Initially, Meissen's production imitated oriental production, especially Japanese kakiemon ("indianische Blumen"), although enameled pieces with landscape, floral and gallant themes were also produced, the latter derived from the painting of the Frenchman Antoine Watteau. Undecorated glazed porcelain pieces were also produced, which were sold to other workshops, where they were decorated with enamels. However, in 1717 a former Meissen worker, Samuel Stöltzel, sold the secret of porcelain to a manufactory in Vienna, and by 1760 there were about thirty manufacturers of genuine porcelain in Europe. However, most of these manufactories produced soft-paste porcelain, due to the difficulty of accessing kaolin, the basic ingredient of authentic porcelain (hard paste). After an initial production of rococo style, which evolved towards neoclassical in the 1750s, in the nineteenth century we witnessed a new style known as "second rococo", inspired by the first productions of the manufacture, which coexisted with other historicisms, including the sculpture in round bulk, mainly in glazed porcelain, following models of both rococo and neoclassical.